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Oculus VR today announced on its blog that it's planning to host Oculus Connect from September 19-20 at the Loews Hotel in Hollywood. The company is looking to invite "engineers, designers, and creatives from around the world to share and collaborate in the interest of creating the best virtual reality experiences possible."

Developers attending the event will be able to get hands-on feedback from the Oculus team, and they will also see keynotes from Brendan Iribe, Palmer Luckey, John Carmack, Michael Abrash and others. Attendee applications will be made available starting on July 10 by clicking here, and confirmations will go out the week after.

"In the last two years, we've seen more virtual reality content built than in the last two decades, and that's a direct result of incredible work by the community. With virtual reality's momentum at an all-time high, this is a unique moment for the developer community to come together to take the virtual reality to the next level," Oculus wrote on its blog.

And in other Oculus news, the company today also announced that it's acquired RakNet, which is known for networking middleware systems. Oculus notes that the RakNet technology has already been licensed by thousands of indie developers, as well as companies like Unity, Havok, Mojang, Maxis and Sony Online Entertainment. Moreover, Oculus decided to immediately open-source the RakNet code starting today under a modified BSD license (the same license Facebook uses for its open source projects).

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You know, I misunderstood the headline on this initially and I expected this article to be about an actual conference that TOOK PLACE in VR. And why not! I think Oculus should host something like that - I'm sure there already thinking along these lines anyway with the FB acquisition.

One of the projects I developed here at Nike is a virtual conference room. With the combination of what you can do with body scanning techniques and importing those scans and modeling them on to three dimensional avatars, it can be a pretty legit experience.